First Independent Mena Newspaper
Elements of the prefectural service of the judicial police of Casablanca have foiled Friday, on the basis of accurate information provided by the services of the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), a drug trafficking attempt. The police seized 2 tons of chira on board a truck transporting goods and arrested the truck driver and […]
UN Sahara envoy Staffan de Mistura will start a new tour to the region with a visit to Morocco this Saturday for talks with Moroccan officials to advance the UN-led political process on the Sahara. The announcement was made Friday by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General during his daily press briefing. “I have […]
Speaker of Mercosur Parliament Tomas Bittar Navarro has commended the efforts deployed by King Mohammed VI for building closer ties between Africa, the Arab world and Latin America within the frame of the South-South cooperation, one of the cornerstones of the country’s foreign policy. Bittar Navarro made the remarks Thursday in Montevideo following his meeting […]
Morocco is taking part in the 33rd session of the Crans Montana Forum Africa , held in Brussels under the theme ”the world at the time of African economic sovereignty”. The three days extraordinary session of the forum will discuss the construction of a new Africa-Europe partnership, security challenges, the strengthening of public health systems, […]
Tunisia on Thursday published in the Official Gazette the draft constitution, scheduled to be submitted to a referendum on July 25. The 139-article draft was completed behind closed doors in less than a month, suggesting a substantial change in the country’s political system, which would now grant greater powers to the executive. Under the draft […]
The Spanish government has denounced the maneuvers of the Algerian authorities who have proceeded to the unilateral blocking of trade operations in both directions and violated the association agreement with the European Union. The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, confirmed on Thursday that there was indeed a blockade of trade operations by […]
The combined Moroccan-American exercise “African Lion 2022” ended on Thursday at Cape Draa, Tan Tan, with a training between the Royal Armed Forces and the American Armed Forces. During this exercise, which was attended by Lieutenant General Belkhir El Farouk, Inspector General of the FAR and Commander of the South Zone, and General Stephen Townsend, […]
Several members of the European Parliament have voiced support to Morocco’s humane management of illegal migration, describing the North African Kingdom as a reliable and strategic partner in the fight against human smuggling and trafficking. Commenting the latest violent mass crossing attempt by illegal sub-Saharan migrants from Northern Moroccan region of Nador into Spanish enclave […]
The UN Secretary General’s Special Adviser for Libya, Stephanie Williams, is set to remain in office for at least one more month in office, Italian news agency Nova has learned. Unnamed Libyan sources reportedly told the agency the US diplomat will remain in the post, because of the vacancy for a chief of the U.N. […]
Seven Sudanese rebel groups, including former Janjaweed forces fighting on the side of warlord Khalifa Haftar, have agreed to leave Libya, reports say. The groups, Libya Observer reports citing London-based Middle East Eye (MEE), made the decision early this month during a meeting held in Niger on June 11-12. The meeting, MEE reported, took place […]